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Work, Reproduction, and Health in Two Andean Communities
Chapter 4 - Footnotes
1 These behaviors may be important to prevent cold stress, however.
2 One cup of peeled, boiled potatoes contains 2.9 grams of protein, similar in amount to the quantity of protein in one half ounce of cheddar cheese (USDA 1975:53, 129).
3 In Cuyo Cuyo this means the lay baptism performed by godparents (unuchasqa), because priests are rarely available. Libbet Crandon-Malamud (personal communication) found a similar practice in the Andean community of Ancoraimes, Bolivia, where unbaptized, unnamed infants were not listed in birth registries.
4 A probability sampling of approximately 100,000 of Peru's overall population was used in this survey (Gomez 1986: 9).
5 Differences between HSAPERU data and my data may be artifacts of the data collection procedure. Leatherman, whose questionnaire format I followed, also found surprisingly high levels of musculoskeletal complaints in Nuñoa, Puno 1987: 184-185).
6 See Buechler and Buechler (1971: 23), Bolton (1980), and De Meer (1988) for comparable data on infanticide in Andean communities. According to my female research assistant, people occasionally sell infants under age one, especially females, if they do not want or need them. I myself received several offers to buy children in this way. Children are generally sold to families out side the District. In 1987 the going rate was I./1000, or approximately $20.00. One Ura Ayllu research family planned to sell their youngest daughter in 1986, although the mother changed her mind at the last minute, in spite of a threatened lawsuit. Pre-adolescent daughters are occasionally sent to live with families in the cities and work as servants in a form of indentured servitude. Two other Ura Ayllu research families attempted to do this in 1985-1988, suggesting to me that the frequency of this behavior is fairly high.
7 Traveling healers are called Kallawayas, after the famed traveling curers of Bolivia (see Bastien 1987). Now, however, most are from the Lake Titicaca area and are as much traveling salesmen as healers.
8 The pesticide Aldrin was accidentally mixed with flour used to make bread for a funeral. Approximately twenty-five Ura Ayllinos, principally women and children, were poisoned in this incident. They all survived.
